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en-usTechdirt. Stories filed under "rebroadcast"https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/td-88x31.gifhttps://www.techdirt.com/Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:57:00 PDTDid The FCC 'Rebroadcast Or Retransmit An Account' Of MLB Game On Twitter?Mike Masnickhttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101020/16582011514/did-the-fcc-rebroadcast-or-retransmit-an-account-of-mlb-game-on-twitter.shtml
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101020/16582011514/did-the-fcc-rebroadcast-or-retransmit-an-account-of-mlb-game-on-twitter.shtmljust that NFL warning to show how the NFL was exaggerating its rights... and got a takedown notice. The MLB one is a bit different. It reads: "Any rebroadcast, retransmission, or account of this game, without the express written consent of Major League Baseball, is prohibited." We wrote about that one because one guy asked MLB for permission to describe a game to his friend, and MLB wouldn't give it. The FTC has been asked to stop sports leagues from making such overly broad (and legally misleading) claims, but hasn't done anything.

Of course, this has some questioning whether or not the FCC just did a rebroadcast or retransmission of an account of the game without (one assumes) express written consent of Major League Baseball. Of course, MLB's random attempts to enforce its bogus claims of ownership on data have all failed, and I'm sure it knows better than to take on the FCC in a losing cause, but it does a nice job of highlighting just how ridiculous the "warning" is from the MLB, and makes you wonder why the FTC doesn't crack down on what appears to be copyfraud.